Design: Shake it Like a Digital Camera? Polaroid Jettisons Last Vestiges of Instant Photo Biz

Ah, The Polaroid. This was the coolest thing when I was a kid, my family had an awesome Polaroid Land Camera with brown leather-like inserts and sonar (like a friggin' bat!). The whole 70s coked-out aesthetic seemed designed for the harsh unforgiving exposure of Polaroid instant film.

However digital cameras and cell phone cameras etc. have rendered the technology obsolete and Polaroid -- having stopped making the cameras last year -- will wind down film production this year.

Culture: 70s Icon and Canyon Foe Evel Knievel Jumps The Big One at 69

Spangled cape wearing motorcycle stuntman extraordinaire Evel Knievel died today after suffering from a variety of ailments including pulmonary fibrosis. In his prime Knievel jumped buses, sharks, and Pepsi delivery trucks as well as a whole bunch of cars. He often broke bones. His most famous stunt was the unsuccessful jump of Snake River Canyon on a rocket propelled motorcycle. Yes kids, the 70s were a different time.

Here's Knievel wiping out at Caeser's Palace in Las Vegas:


Here's his ill-fated Snake River Canyon jump:


And here he jumps a bunch of vans in Portland circa 1973: